Princess
Princess was given to 209 girls in 2025, #1,122 among girls’ names; 15,982 Americans have been recorded with it since 1895 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 14,900 Americans named Princess and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 13 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Princess by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Princess mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Princess is “a female given name from English.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Princess?
#1,122 among girls’ names, 2025
Princess fell from #988 in 2015 to #1,122 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.15 to 0.13 per 1,000.
400 babies in 2006, the peak
Princess peaked in 2006, when 400 girls were given it, #713 among girls’ names. The 209 births of 2025 are 52% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 209 | #1,122 | 0.13 |
| 2024 | 212 | #1,146 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 288 | #922 | 0.18 |
| 2022 | 278 | #963 | 0.17 |
| 2021 | 303 | #894 | 0.18 |
| 2020 | 343 | #795 | 0.21 |
| 2019 | 365 | #765 | 0.22 |
| 2018 | 373 | #744 | 0.22 |
| 2017 | 383 | #740 | 0.22 |
| 2016 | 377 | #758 | 0.21 |
Every recorded year (126)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 274 | #988 | 0.15 |
| 2014 | 259 | #1,010 | 0.14 |
| 2013 | 259 | #973 | 0.15 |
| 2012 | 249 | #1,015 | 0.14 |
| 2011 | 309 | #856 | 0.18 |
| 2010 | 297 | #894 | 0.17 |
| 2009 | 304 | #898 | 0.17 |
| 2008 | 291 | #938 | 0.15 |
| 2007 | 347 | #830 | 0.18 |
| 2006 | 400 | #713 | 0.21 |
| 2005 | 371 | #731 | 0.20 |
| 2004 | 353 | #745 | 0.19 |
| 2003 | 383 | #686 | 0.21 |
| 2002 | 269 | #860 | 0.15 |
| 2001 | 263 | #871 | 0.15 |
| 2000 | 279 | #813 | 0.15 |
| 1999 | 261 | #828 | 0.15 |
| 1998 | 270 | #796 | 0.15 |
| 1997 | 239 | #855 | 0.14 |
| 1996 | 212 | #924 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 216 | #879 | 0.12 |
| 1994 | 210 | #909 | 0.12 |
| 1993 | 253 | #798 | 0.14 |
| 1992 | 228 | #869 | 0.12 |
| 1991 | 251 | #818 | 0.13 |
| 1990 | 272 | #759 | 0.14 |
| 1989 | 301 | #678 | 0.16 |
| 1988 | 280 | #690 | 0.16 |
| 1987 | 238 | #758 | 0.14 |
| 1986 | 313 | #613 | 0.18 |
| 1985 | 267 | #677 | 0.16 |
| 1984 | 262 | #664 | 0.16 |
| 1983 | 252 | #678 | 0.15 |
| 1982 | 220 | #754 | 0.13 |
| 1981 | 187 | #839 | 0.11 |
| 1980 | 175 | #878 | 0.11 |
| 1979 | 149 | #968 | 0.09 |
| 1978 | 107 | #1,180 | 0.07 |
| 1977 | 89 | #1,308 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 70 | #1,491 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 73 | #1,436 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 80 | #1,331 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 76 | #1,337 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 58 | #1,587 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 73 | #1,438 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 70 | #1,461 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 53 | #1,661 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 65 | #1,400 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 87 | #1,140 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 89 | #1,128 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 95 | #1,076 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 99 | #1,100 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 108 | #1,032 | 0.06 |
| 1962 | 92 | #1,143 | 0.05 |
| 1961 | 95 | #1,130 | 0.05 |
| 1960 | 82 | #1,208 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 90 | #1,128 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 64 | #1,327 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 46 | #1,604 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 51 | #1,501 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 52 | #1,397 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 38 | #1,666 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 42 | #1,521 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,702 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 38 | #1,550 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 33 | #1,645 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 33 | #1,651 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 44 | #1,401 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 30 | #1,779 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 28 | #1,710 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 25 | #1,693 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,787 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 24 | #1,783 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 19 | #2,026 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 25 | #1,596 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 20 | #1,833 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 17 | #2,020 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,420 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 21 | #1,723 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 16 | #2,009 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,412 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,267 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 15 | #2,131 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,865 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 15 | #2,188 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,534 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,699 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,594 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 20 | #2,009 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,683 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 23 | #1,836 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 23 | #1,854 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 18 | #2,151 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 21 | #1,946 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 24 | #1,813 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 23 | #1,799 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 20 | #1,908 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,483 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 22 | #1,698 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 15 | #2,223 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 25 | #1,469 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,887 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,759 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,582 | 0.01 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,525 | 0.03 |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,605 | 0.03 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,924 | 0.02 |
| 1908 | 10 | #1,421 | 0.03 |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,300 | 0.03 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,171 | 0.02 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,625 | 0.03 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,750 | 0.02 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,537 | 0.03 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,913 | 0.02 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,551 | 0.03 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,559 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Princess a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Princess has been given almost only to girls: 7 boys in 126 years of records.
Girls and boys named Princess: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Princess, and how old are they?
14,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 15,982 Americans ever recorded as Princess. The median Princess alive today is 25 years old; half are between 13 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 14,300 people named Princess (14,254 women and girls, 46 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,556 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 105 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 884 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,310 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,860 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,830 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,900 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Princess born?
The states with the most babies named Princess are Georgia, California and Texas, with 35% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 23 | #505 | 1.9× |
| California | 19 | #1,309 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 19 | #1,344 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 17 | #947 | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 13 | #766 | 1.6× |
| New York | 11 | #1,293 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,097 | 0.9× |
| Alabama | 8 | #622 | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,088 | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 7 | #1,035 | 0.7× |
Where Princess is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Princess is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1910 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Princess with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 16,167 babies since 1880, Princess is the most given (99% of them). In 2025 it was given to 209 of their 216 babies (97%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Princess
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Princess and names like it
- Compare Princess and PryncessBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sPrincess peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Princess since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Princess: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Princess.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Princess alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with PMost given first.